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The coming debt crisis will surpass that of the 1980s and disproportionately impact women, economist Ilene Grabel warns.
The French left and far right joined forces to reject austerity, exposing the hollowing of the political center.
We should raise walls of resistance as much as we can. More important, though, we should demand from the democratic forces to adopt a socio-economic...
Leaders of the world’s top polluting nations skipped COP29, which also failed to address how militarism fuels emissions.
Trump’s rise the result of the ongoing erosion of the political culture in the U.S. under neoliberalism, which has essentially become the...
The recently concluded 2024 BRICS (an acronym for the combined economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, hosted by Russian...
The legacy of the Russian Revolution obliges, 107 years later, neither celebration nor mourning. Dreams are surely renewable, and a new world is still...
An interview with Israeli academic, left-wing activist and resister Idan Landau, who has been jailed three times in military prison for refusing to...
An interview with Lebanon expert Mireille Rebeiz, who says that "I would like to believe that Lebanon will not turn into a second Gaza," but...
An interview with Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen.
Deception, lies and secrecy — including lies to cover secrecy — characterize authoritarian regimes. However, the politics of lying and official...
Research has long established strong links between neoliberal policies and increasing rates of inequality. Susan George, for instance, argued quite...
We need to rebuild the labor movement, and that means not going back to the kind of unions that existed in the postwar era. We need unions with a...
This election is indeed unlike any other in modern history because American voters are so polarized that the threat of civil breakdown is real.
The Federal Reserve hasn’t changed interest rates since July of last year, after 11 hikes between March 2022 and July 2023 in the hope that higher...
As Noam once said, “if you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.”
Carbon dividends, public investment, and binding carbon-emissions reductions to commensurate reductions of toxic air pollutants from fossil fuels are...
Wealth taxation may sound like a good idea, but can it really address, let alone solve, the problem of inequality?
The authoritarian, dystopian settings that the U.S. created in so many places across the world are being reconceived by ultra-conservative forces...
A united left is a formidable opponent that cannot only halt the surge of neo-fascism, but can also offer a positive and inspiring vision for the...
President Emmanuel Macron’s risky gamble to call a snap legislative election after his party suffered a humiliating defeat at the European...
Years of brutal neoliberal capitalism combined with the left’s betrayal have led to widespread political demoralization.
The economy is a top issue for many voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election. In a lengthy interview ahead of the first presidential debate...
Just over half of the 373 million citizens eligible to vote across the 27 European Union (EU) countries bothered to cast a ballot during the four-day...
An interview with C. J. Polychroniou.
Every five years, citizens of European Union (EU) governments elect their representatives as members of the European Parliament. With 720 seats up for...
Progressive economic ideas have been on the whole an anathema to the U.S. political establishment and violence against labor militancy has always been...
U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth nearly double since the Trump tax cuts took effect in 2017. In the meantime, the planet is getting hotter and...
Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who don’t is the primary driver of climate...
Militarized borders — comprising walls, barriers, fences and repressive border policies — have become something of the norm in today’s world,...
C. J. Polychroniou speaks with progressive economist Gerald Epstein about why alternative banking is possible and urgently needed.
US crude oil production reached an all-time production high in 2023 -- the hottest year on record.
Our current banking and financial system has transformed politics in favor of the rich, debilitating democratic institutions, destroying the common...
The fortunes of the five richest men in the world have “shot up by 114 percent since 2020,” according to a January 2024 Oxfam report on global...
Over the past several decades, there have been rapid and fundamental changes in the finance and banking sectors. The banking reforms of the New Deal,...
On January 1, 2024, the minimum wage increased from coast to coast. Indeed, 22 states and more than 40 cities and counties experienced wage increases...
If we are to expect the frustrated and badly battered working-class people to turn their backs on the false promises of the far right and join instead...
The extraction of wealth is a pathology of late capitalism and is defined by the cultural and political processes by which the rich establish...
The outcome of global climate summits has barely changed since the United Nations held the first Conference of the Parties (COP) in Berlin in 1995....
During the last couple of decades, we have been witnessing a resurgence of interest in the thought and work of Karl Marx, author of major...
Global climate summits have rarely produced tangible results. More than anything, they have proven to be nothing less than platforms for verbose empty...